Gaming

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Yes, I’m a worms fan.  If you don’t know what worms is, then don’t bother with this article.  Worms Reloaded is out.  Team17 has taken the franchise from 3D back to it’s 2D roots and wow…  Proof that 3D is NOT always better.  The 3D worms games were great and all, but nothing compares to the original 2D chaos.  Having a modern version of that is just awesome.

So here’s my mini review:

What I like:

• JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING from all the years of worming through the original 2D games through the 3D games is here.
• Simplest network multiplayer support ever.  Past worms games were always tough to get working right over the internet.  Not so with the latest masterpiece.
• All of the classic speech banks are back along with new spinoffs of the same
• New weapons (lots)
• 3D accented graphics (nifty backgrounds and special effects)
• HD resolution support

What I don’t like:

• Lan play missing?  I don’t like this new trand game devs are taking.
• Only 4 worms per team (Worms Armageddon supported up to 8 )
• I can’t seem to mix CPU players into hosted games.
• VOIP support turned on by default (annoying when not using headphones).
• I can’t have two teams on one PC connected to two teams on a remote PC.  (Worms world party allowed this).

Would I recommend it?  Hell yes! 

Final thoughts:  For a game like this, lan play isn’t all that important since if you’re going to play it at a lan party you might as well just use hotseat mode.  As for 4 worms per team, it just makes for faster matches.  Voip issues are resolved for me by unplugging all recording devices from my PC during a game.  I seem to be at a loss for words on adding a hotseater/cpu player to internet games though – maybe they’ll patch that in later.